Harold Schouten

Harold Schouten is a Contemporary Artist living and working in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Schouten’s prolific career has seen his works exhibited in group and solo shows at the top art galleries in the Netherlands. Schouten’s works can also be found in the permanent collections of major institutions such as the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

Harold Schouten’s latest body of work explores themes of life by the sea and the modern underwater landscape. At a young age, Schouten became fascinated with the sea and began translating the shapes and patterns he saw in the water onto the canvas. For Schouten, “it was always a dilemma to capture a liquid as elusive as water. You can’t grab it or hold onto it. As soon as one puts a brush on the canvas, it always seems like the image before you is slipping away. Water is as much, and at the same time, as little as paint in a tube.”

The relationship between the water and the sky is undeniable. Above the water there are the clouds – the ever-changing subject of the water. The sea is always being transformed by the sky that is her fixed companion. Joining these two worlds is the imaginary but ever present receding horizon. Under the surface however, unfolds a miraculous world, the world of ...

Academy of Art ‘St. Joost’ in Breda, The Netherlands.
Graduated in 1986 and since then has been living and working in Amsterdam.

Solo Exhibitions (select)

2012
Carceri & Bricolages, De Cantine, Amsterdam

2010
Galerie De Vis, Harlingen

2009
Art fair Cologne &The Sky is the Limit, Josart, Amsterdam
Waterworks (solo) Katwijks Museum, Katwijk

2008
Jan van Hoof Galerie, Den Bosch

2007
Fruits de mer nr.3, Kantoor Langenveld, Amsterdam

2006
Open Plek, Jan van Hoof Galerie, ‘s Hertogenbosch
Fruits de mer nr.2, Kantoor Langenveld, Amsterdam

2004
Stills & Stories Jan van Hoof Galerie ‘s Hertogenbosch
Jan van Hoof Galerie, Den Bosch
Landschappelijk Perspectief, with Willem den Ouden, Museum van Haren/de Kunstruimte, Heerenveen

2003
Stekkies, Woonzorgcentrum Franciscus, Beek
Gallery Nijehove, Diepenheim

2002
Op Locatie,Gallery Yoga Art, Amsterdam

2001
Jan van Hoof Galerie, Den Bosch

2000
Moving Perspectives II, AMC, Amsterdam

1999
Connections, Gallery Andata Ritorno, Geneva Switzerland

1998
Impressions d'Auvers, Chateau d'Auvers, Auvers sur l’Oise, France
Overburen, Lokaal 01, Breda
Vandestraat, C.B.K., Leiden

1997
Moving Perspectives, Gallery Metis, Amsterdam
Showrooms, Villa st. Lambert, Eindhoven
Homes and Highways 1, Gallery Ruine, Geneva...